Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-30
Dress Tricots, entirely new
and cheap, at Youmans'.


Cook stoves, ranges and heating stoves
at cost. This is a fact. Morris Bros II
Buy your fruits, nuts and corrections
OF j. X. Young, next door to the post
Office. 81
Rigg Bros. have opened -four and
feed store opposite the Citizens Nat
ional bank.
The best beef to be had in town is a
the Central meat market, opposite 1st
National bank. 4
Mrs. NJ. G. Stockton, former resi-
dent Of this county, is down from Otta-
Wa. on business.
If there are coal beds within one hun
dred miles of us. we are as apt to find
gas as not 90 find it.
Get your winter goods now, when
theg are cheap, in fact at cost and car
rage, at Byerley's. %
Miss Daniels left. Thursday. for Mil
vaukee, after a visit Of several weeks
10 Mrs. a. J.. Noble.
Ten wagon loads Of toys and holiday
goods ut The postofice must be sold
now. McClearey X Go. ~
Mrs. Margaret Curd expects to leave,
for Marion county, next week, TO spend
the winter with her sons.
Try the Avenue house for square
meal and a good bed. Everything fresh
and clean. W. L. Collins is now the
proprietor. 81
1t Is said that mad dog was up on
Elm creek two weeks ago and that sew
eral dogs were bitten and have since
died of hydrophobia.
). +. Stone and his daughter, Mrs.
Fleming, and her children, started,
Monday, for Monterey, California. Mr..
Stone will return i'm few weeks.
The farm house of Mr.. Englebrecht,
two miles north of Lodi, was DESTROYED
by fire on the 22nd inst, together with
its contents. 1t was worth 81 900 and
insured for 500.
These little social entertainments.
gotten up by the ladies of this city, do
more good than most people think. A
stranger makes more acquaintences
there than anywhere else in the same
length of time, and older friendships
are greatly strengthened.
r. L. Wheelock writes to the INDEX
from Nauvoo, ILL.,, that he has q drill
for prospecting for coal, gas, &c, and
If our people want hole sunk in the
ground, he will do the work as cheaply
as anybody. We all know Mr.. Wheel
ock, and il he takes contract, he will
do a good job.
sun City Union: ~ corporation hay
ing for its object the utilizing of the
water of Turkey creek for irrigating,
manufacturing and other purposes, has
just received its charter as 1.-The Sun
City Water Power Company" The in
corpOrators are among our best men.
and expect TO proceed to work as soon
as possible. They mean business"
Union Thanksgiving services were
held ut the Presbyterian church last
Thursday morning. Rev. r. Sander
son, of the Methodist church preached
the sermon, which was comparison Of
/ the United States with the nations Of
the world. In nearly every respect our
/ country was shown to be superior.
The serm 20 was a most interesting one.
and was 'iivered in a manner TO that
shovel the clear and honest convictions
of the speaker. The audience was rath-
or small. but all felt well repaid for
their attendance.
10 appears that y. III. Kruger, who
lived ON farm and was apparently
comfortably fixed. five miles southeast
uf here. suddenly left this county, two
weeks ago without saying goodbye to
/ anyone. His horses were mOrtgaged to
! a mnuey-lJauer ia this city for nearly
5000. II caught. he will be prosecuted
- the full extent Of the law. IL is get
ting to be a common occurrence for
people to leave the county without
squaring up their obligations, ~" an
example should be made Of some one.
kruge is German, about 80 years old.
medium height and heavy built. lie
took with him four or five large horses
/ including roam stallion. lie formerly
lived near Cherryvale, Kans.
DIR. Gillette was not sick on thanks
/ giving day, winch made him look SO
glum. He was only disguised. The
doctor loves a nice turkey, stuffed with
oysters, and with plenty of brown gravy .
and in order TO insure himself turkey
dinner on thanksgiving day, he bought
/ his turkey weeks before, and fed it all
1t could eat, and he secretly rejoiced TO
see the plump appearance of the bird.
His mouth watered for large thin
outside slice, and the nearer thanksgiv-
/ ing came, the more fond the doctor be-
came of his prospective dinner. We'd
nesday evening came, and il was Just
time for the doctor to cut off the tur-
keys head, that the fowl might be pre-
pared for the next days dinner. The
doctor picked up a Ratchet and walked
out. After looking everywhere else. he
thought of the pig-pen, and looking in
there he saw his turkey, but the pig had
eaten one half of it, and was rapidly
hiding away the other half. To say
that he was disgusted is only drawing
the picture mildly.
We have never made any particular
effort to increase our circulation, as
heretofore we used a common hand
! press. and the work was slow and hard.
Now we have fast steam power-press,
and we want to get the full benefit of
1t. During the coming year we want
to issue l,SOO or 900 papers each week.
I We intend dOingall we can to improve